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Red Sun Rising - Equinox - 01-07-2008
After Costello sent the last message to the council he set course for the Omega 41 jumphole. Just as the Osiris battleship entered the cloud a wing of fighters flickered and came to life on his scanner, Joe cut his cruise engines and got close enough to scan one of the ships ... Coalition ...
He opened up comm's to the ships, "Hail Coalition pilots."
"This is Commodore Zahn."
Costello smiled.
"Your reputation proceeds you Commodore."
"I thought SCRA ships were banned from Gamma?."
"Just making sure Ares gets of planet Crete without any hostility's."
"Good, I'm glad to hear it."
Starting up the cruise engines once again Costello laid in the last waypoint to the Omega 41 Jumphole.
"Zahn, please tell Ares to get in contact with me, I would like to talk to him."
With that the Osiris disappears through the Jumphole.
Red Sun Rising - bluntpencil2001 - 01-07-2008
Ares hopped out of his Raven's Talon's cockpit nimbly, landing softly on the Velasco's flight deck. He smiled as he saw that Joe had met him in the fighter bay instead of waiting on the bridge.
"Elder Costello... Joe... Zehn said you needed me?"
"Yes..."
Ares grinned as he moved to shake Costello's hand, following with a manly embrace.
"What's needed my brother? Are you fed up with the politics back home?"
"Yeah, so's my crew..."
A few of the deckhands murmured agreement, one shouting "Goddamn greedy bastards like Skyelius and Montoya don't care about us!"
The man that shouted lowered his eyes in fear and shame when the gazes of Joe and Adrian met his, but quickly found Costello and Ares sympathising.
"Their hearts are in the right place... but they take a bad direction. I want to do something!" grimaced Joe, before indicating his men...
"We want to do something!"
Ares nodded solemnly, staring intensely, before smiling grimly.
"We like do-ers in the Coalition..."
He took Joe's hand and shook it firmly.
"Join us. We'll make a difference. We'll bring order and justice to Crete and the rest of Sirius."
Red Sun Rising - Equinox - 01-07-2008
"Yes times have changed allot on Crete over the past month."
"I find myself more and more seeing that there way of doing things is not working, a more direct approach is whats needed and i believe the SCRA have that."
"Although some of my crew said that my main grievance is with the leader of the Benitez family and the way the Brotherhood dealt with it."
"If i had my way i would have had Carlos taken out into the main courtyard and shot for his treachery."
Ares laughed.
"I think you will do well in the SCRA my friend.
"Ok then as of now my ship and the people on board it pledge themselfs to the Revolution."
They shook hands again.
"Now thats settled do you want a drink?."
With that they headed to the bar that Joe had fitted when the Velasco was first commissioned.
Red Sun Rising - bluntpencil2001 - 01-07-2008
They sat in the bar, sipping Cadiz-made lager with lime.
Ares began to speak in a semi-formal manner,
"Right, Comrade, heh, we'll need to cover some formalities..."
Joe nodded as a matter of course.
"Right. We'll need to sort your rank. As an Elder like myself, with command of the Velasco, which will need its transponders changed, you will be given a similar rank to myself, a Coalition Captain."
Joe looked pleasantly shocked, having expected to start at the bottom like Ares had done.
"I expected less, to have to earn my place."
"You earned it in the Brotherhood."
Joe showed understanding before asking,
"You mentioned the Velasco's transponders?"
"Si, si. It would need the standard RACS codes... You'd need to recalibrate the transponder to something resembling RACS-Velasco, I guess. Sound good?"
Joe agreed, saying, "Of course... and I could change her name to one more fitting a revolutionary role..."
Ares was rather surprised, and impressed too. "Oh? What's the idea, my brother?"
Joe offered a smile, and offered Ares a cigar, which he refused. Costello lit up and took a puff before continuing...
"Your loss... you see, she'll be called the RACS-Havana..."
Ares smirked and began to laugh, "Right, now that's out of the way, time for the important stuff... what size of uniform do you need, Captain Costello?"
Joe laughed in response...
"Large!"